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单词 netheward
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nethewardadj.n.

Forms: Old English neoþeward (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English neoðeward (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English neoþeweard (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English neoðeweard (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English neoþewerd (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English neoðewerd (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English neoþouard (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English neoðoward (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English neoþoweard (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English neoðoweard (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English neoðweard (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English nioðaweard (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English nioðaword (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English nioþeweard (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English nioþewerd (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English nioþoweard (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English nioðuord (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English niþeweard, Old English niðeweard, Old English niþewerd, Old English nyðeweard, Old English nyþewerd, Old English nyðoweard, Old English–early Middle English nyþeweard, late Old English nytheweard, early Middle English neoþewærd, early Middle English neþewarde, early Middle English nioðeweard, early Middle English nioðoweard, early Middle English nyþæwerd, early Middle English nyþewærð.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nether adv.1, -ward suffix.
Etymology: < nethe- (in nether adv.1) + -ward suffix. Compare netherward adj.
Obsolete.
Designating or forming the lower or bottom part or section; situated beneath or at the bottom. Cf. oveward adj. Also as n.: the bottom or lower part.
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the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adjective] > having downward direction
nethewardeOE
netherwarda1300
prone?a1425
downward1552
clined1594
down1642
groundward1878
eOE Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) iii. vii. 312 Wiþ heals wærce wyl neoþewearde netelan on oxan smerwe & on buteran [etc.].
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xxvii. 51 Ecce uelum templi scisum est in duas partes a summo usque deorsum : heonu waghrahel temples..tosliten wæs in tuæm dælum from ufawærd wið to nioðaweard.
OE Phoenix 299 Sindon þa fiþru hwit hindanweard, ond se hals grene nioþoweard ond ufeweard.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xxx. 264 Fram his hnolle ufewerdan, oð his ilas neoðewerde.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 165 On þe steire of fiftene stoples fro neþewarde to uuewarde.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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